Re: NTSEC db_home

2015-04-17 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Apr 17 10:07, Jim Reisert AD1C wrote: > I'm having a little trouble with the db_home: setting at work > (corporate network, not using /etc/passwd or /etc/group). Regarding: > > https://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/ntsec.html#ntsec-mapping-nsswitch-home > > I tried "db_home: /%H" and although my

Re: NTSEC documentation

2007-01-08 Thread Jay Abel
Looks like this is now covered, but I'd still be happy to proofread and/or edit for spelling, grammar and for clarity by someone not intimately familiar with cygwin internals. - Original Message - From: "Jay Abel" To: the list Sent: Monday, January 08, 2007 10:05

Re: NTSEC documentation

2007-01-08 Thread Jay Abel
put me at number 10 on your list. If you don't get a number 1-9, I suppose I am it. Jay - Original Message - From: "Corinna Vinschen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Monday, January 08, 2007 12:18 AM Subject: NTSEC documentation Is anybody here with a developer background, who likes

IRC client (Was RE: NTSEC documentation)

2007-01-08 Thread Igor Peshansky
On Mon, 8 Jan 2007, Dave Korn wrote: > (Plus I don't have any irc software installed...) FYI, naim comes with an IRC client (called 'nirc'). Igor -- http://cs.nyu.edu/~pechtcha/ |\ _,,,---,,_[EMAIL PROTECTED] | [EMAIL PROTECTED] ZZ

RE: NTSEC documentation

2007-01-08 Thread Dave Korn
On 08 January 2007 14:12, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > On Jan 8 08:59, Christopher Faylor wrote: >> On Mon, Jan 08, 2007 at 02:53:30PM +0100, Corinna Vinschen wrote: >>> >>> Other than that, bug me in PM if you think something's maybe not correct >>> anymore. >> >> Would this be a good use of the

Re: NTSEC documentation

2007-01-08 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Jan 8 08:59, Christopher Faylor wrote: > On Mon, Jan 08, 2007 at 02:53:30PM +0100, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > >On Jan 8 12:29, Dave Korn wrote: > >> On 08 January 2007 10:19, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > >> > >> > Is anybody here with a developer background, who likes writing > >> > documentation

Re: NTSEC documentation

2007-01-08 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Mon, Jan 08, 2007 at 02:53:30PM +0100, Corinna Vinschen wrote: >On Jan 8 12:29, Dave Korn wrote: >> On 08 January 2007 10:19, Corinna Vinschen wrote: >> >> > Is anybody here with a developer background, who likes writing >> > documentation? >> > >> > If so, would this person be interested in

Re: NTSEC documentation

2007-01-08 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Jan 8 12:29, Dave Korn wrote: > On 08 January 2007 10:19, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > > > Is anybody here with a developer background, who likes writing > > documentation? > > > > If so, would this person be interested in revamping the NTSEC > > documentation with my input? It shows its age, m

RE: NTSEC documentation

2007-01-08 Thread Dave Korn
On 08 January 2007 10:19, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > Is anybody here with a developer background, who likes writing > documentation? > > If so, would this person be interested in revamping the NTSEC > documentation with my input? It shows its age, my lacking knowledge of > the english language an

RE: ntsec

2006-04-22 Thread Dave Korn
On 22 April 2006 22:59, Robert Thomas beau Hayes Link wrote: > On Sat, Apr 22, 2006 at 12:52:41PM +0100, Dave Korn wrote: >> Do you mean some magical force siezes control of your body and stops you >> from typing every time you go to enter the word "chmod"? > Thanks for your tongue-in-cheek tong

Re: ntsec

2006-04-22 Thread Robert Thomas beau Hayes Link
On Sat, Apr 22, 2006 at 12:52:41PM +0100, Dave Korn wrote: > Do you mean some magical force siezes control of your body and stops you > from typing every time you go to enter the word "chmod"? Thanks for your tongue-in-cheek tongue-lashing. I'll spend some time getting my head around cygcheck an

RE: ntsec

2006-04-22 Thread Dave Korn
On 22 April 2006 05:51, Robert Thomas beau Hayes Link wrote: > Greetings, > > I've poked around in the faqs and other docs but have not been able to > solve my proble, which is that for the first time in serveral cygwin > installs I a not able to chmod 755 any of my files. Do you mean some mag

Re: ntsec: changing the everyone user

2003-09-22 Thread Larry Hall
At 05:23 PM 9/22/2003, Chris Rodgers you wrote: >> On Mon, Sep 15, 2003 at 05:35:20PM +0100, Chris Rodgers wrote: >> > OK. Here is an example of the way permissions leak out to "Everyone". I >> > create a new file, with no permissions granted to "other". Cygwin shows >this >> > to have worked OK. Y

Re: ntsec: changing the everyone user

2003-09-22 Thread Chris Rodgers
> On Mon, Sep 15, 2003 at 05:35:20PM +0100, Chris Rodgers wrote: > > OK. Here is an example of the way permissions leak out to "Everyone". I > > create a new file, with no permissions granted to "other". Cygwin shows this > > to have worked OK. Yet in actual fact there is an ACL there giving Everyo

Re: ntsec: changing the everyone user

2003-09-15 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Mon, Sep 15, 2003 at 05:35:20PM +0100, Chris Rodgers wrote: > OK. Here is an example of the way permissions leak out to "Everyone". I > create a new file, with no permissions granted to "other". Cygwin shows this > to have worked OK. Yet in actual fact there is an ACL there giving Everyone > som

Re: ntsec: changing the everyone user

2003-09-15 Thread Chris Rodgers
OK. Here is an example of the way permissions leak out to "Everyone". I create a new file, with no permissions granted to "other". Cygwin shows this to have worked OK. Yet in actual fact there is an ACL there giving Everyone some access rights. I usually choose not to have "Everyone" authorised to

Re: ntsec: changing the everyone user

2003-09-15 Thread Larry Hall
At 07:58 AM 9/15/2003, Chris Rodgers you wrote: >Hi > >I have hunted on the web for a while trying to find a solution, but to no >avail. If any of you can help me, I'd appreciate it. > >I am using Cygwin on Windows 2000 with the NTsec permissions enabled on an >NTFS volume. My problem is that some

RE: NTsec permissions issue over inet

2003-06-03 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
during remote acess. There has > been some insight on what the problem seems to be in regards to the > version of Cygwin. My question is regards to a immediate work-around > this permissions issue with inetd/xinetd ? > > Thanks everyone for taking the time in looking into this issue. >

RE: NTsec permissions issue over inet

2003-06-03 Thread Banville, Stephen
Cygwin. My question is regards to a immediate work-around this permissions issue with inetd/xinetd ? Thanks everyone for taking the time in looking into this issue. Steve Fwd: Re: NTsec permissions issue over inet] From: Larry Hall To: Cygwin Date: Mon, 02 Jun 2003 23:33:51 -0400 Subject

Re: NTsec permissions issue over inet

2003-06-03 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
On Tue, 3 Jun 2003, Banville, Stephen wrote: > Bruce, > This is starting to become clear o what is actually going on. > How do you currently get around this issue ? > > Steve Steve, Please either quote the message you're replying to, or make sure your mailer contains threading informatio

[Fwd: Re: NTsec permissions issue over inet]

2003-06-03 Thread Larry Hall
Original Message Bruce Dobrin wrote: YIKES! There it is, and right there in the users guide no less not only that, but in a section I've actually read a number of times!. Well, that does explain almost everything that is going on ( though, it seems to have

Re: NTsec permissions issue over inet

2003-06-03 Thread Bruce Dobrin
quot; convert everything to windows") I'd really appreciate it.. In any case, Thanks Igor, for the time spent already.. Bruce D. - Original Message - From: "Igor Pechtchanski" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Bruce Dobrin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> C

Re: NTsec permissions issue over inet

2003-06-03 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
gt; \\DFSMASTER\dfsroot\pipe\usr_pasquini\trash > The command completed successfully. > > > - Original Message ----- > From: "Bruce Dobrin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: "Banville, Stephen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Se

Re: NTsec permissions issue over inet

2003-06-03 Thread Martin Gainty
- Original Message - From: "Bruce Dobrin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Bruce Dobrin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, June 02, 2003 8:04 PM Subject: Re: NTsec permissions issue over inet > I tried executing a the command vi

Re: NTsec permissions issue over inet

2003-06-03 Thread Bruce Dobrin
hen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, June 02, 2003 12:37 PM Subject: Re: NTsec permissions issue over inet > hmmm, still experimenting: thought it might have something to do with > inetd and mounts, but I also tried rlogin to which is running >

Re: NTsec permissions issue over inet

2003-06-03 Thread Andrew DeFaria
Igor Pechtchanski wrote: Steve, On Windows, if you use the Windows sharing mechanism (instead of a proprietary filesystem driver), your shares are SMB shares (which stands for Server Message Block, IIRC). The 'smbntsec' option is designed for those kinds of shares. Methinks the documentation w

Re: NTsec permissions issue over inet

2003-06-03 Thread Bruce Dobrin
27;Bruce Dobrin'" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "Banville, Stephen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, June 02, 2003 5:32 AM Subject: RE: NTsec permissions issue over inet > Igor, > I tried settting smbntsec and it did not work. With older version I > used to > just

RE: NTsec permissions issue over inet

2003-06-02 Thread Banville, Stephen
--Original Message- From: Igor Pechtchanski [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, June 01, 2003 7:30 PM To: Stephen Banville Cc: 'Bruce Dobrin'; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: NTsec permissions issue over inet Steve, On Windows, if you use the Windows sharing mec

RE: NTsec permissions issue over inet

2003-06-02 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
x27; > command within the shell, I cannot log in under my user name defined in > the /etc/passwd file. Any ideas why this would ? This could somehow be > related to my problem. > > Any help would be welcomed!! > > Steve > > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROT

RE: NTsec permissions issue over inet

2003-06-02 Thread Stephen Banville
brin Sent: Friday, May 30, 2003 8:20 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: NTsec permissions issue over inet OK, further testing, I can't get the below rlogin "trick" to work on a 1.3.22 machine, the one it worked on is actually a 1.3.12 machine. so, with 1.3.12 I can get it to wor

Re: NTsec permissions issue over inet

2003-05-31 Thread Bruce Dobrin
e confused than ever... - Original Message - From: "Bruce Dobrin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, May 30, 2003 4:46 PM Subject: Re: NTsec permissions issue over inet > Sorry, On re-reading that, it's not as clear as it could b

Re: NTsec permissions issue over inet

2003-05-31 Thread Bruce Dobrin
CTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, May 30, 2003 4:37 PM Subject: Re: NTsec permissions issue over inet > Thanks for responding Larry, > > I actually had tried most permutations of (no)ntsec, (no)smbntsec, (no)ntea, > etc... and on other m

Re: NTsec permissions issue over inet

2003-05-31 Thread Bruce Dobrin
Original Message - From: "Larry Hall" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Bruce Dobrin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, May 29, 2003 7:14 PM Subject: Re: NTsec permissions issue over inet > Bruce Dobrin wrote: > > Here are

Re: NTsec permissions issue over inet

2003-05-30 Thread Bruce Dobrin
Dobrin - Original Message - From: "Larry Hall" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Bruce Dobrin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "Banville, Stephen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, May 29, 2003 6:54 AM Subject: Re: NTsec permiss

RE: NTsec permissions issue over inet

2003-05-30 Thread Banville, Stephen
Message- From: Larry Hall [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, May 29, 2003 9:52 AM To: Banville, Stephen Cc: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject: Re: NTsec permissions issue over inet Banville, Stephen wrote: > My system that I have Cygwin running on is a Windows 2000 platform. I h

RE: NTsec permissions issue over inet

2003-05-29 Thread Banville, Stephen
t: Wednesday, May 28, 2003 4:26 PM To: Banville, Stephen Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: NTsec permissions issue over inet On Wed, 28 May 2003, Banville, Stephen wrote: > Hi All, > I'm not sure if this issue has been detected. I have traversed > through the MANY probelm

RE: NTsec permissions issue over inet

2003-05-29 Thread Banville, Stephen
ECTED] Sent: Wednesday, May 28, 2003 8:05 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Banville, Stephen Subject: Re: NTsec permissions issue over inet Stephen, I was about to ask the same question If you find a solution, PLEASE Post, as I'm running out of workarounds, I have had no luck with nosmbntsec/smbnt

Re: NTsec permissions issue over inet

2003-05-29 Thread Michael Schaap
Igor Pechtchanski wrote: For the future, please *attach* the cygcheck output to avoid generating false positives on message archive search. Random idea: would it be possible to instruct ezmlm-idx to bounce messages containing cygcheck output in the body? (Or enough text to identify cygcheck

Re: NTsec permissions issue over inet

2003-05-29 Thread Bruce Dobrin
ECTED]> To: "Banville, Stephen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, May 28, 2003 1:25 PM Subject: Re: NTsec permissions issue over inet > On Wed, 28 May 2003, Banville, Stephen wrote: > > > Hi All, > > I'm not sure if this

Re: NTsec permissions issue over inet

2003-05-29 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
On Wed, 28 May 2003, Banville, Stephen wrote: > Hi All, > I'm not sure if this issue has been detected. I have traversed > through the MANY probelm reports > and haven't been able to find any specifics on this problem. > > The problem: > > My system that I have Cygwin running on is a Wind

RE: NTSEC & ntwrk drives?; chown/chmod/ls -l only wrkg on local drives

2002-12-19 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sorry, I can't reproduce something similar here. Perhaps if you read http://www.cygwin.com/bugs.html it might help those on the list. Also, I'd direct you toward the User's Guide, specifically http://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/using-cygwinenv.html and the description of smbntsec. Larry Origina

RE: ntsec Question

2002-12-16 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
02 16:03:41 - To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: ntsec Question I think your confusion here comes from thinking that Cygwin controls the user login. Windows handles the login process. To change which user is logged in you will need to either log off windows then log the new user on, or us

RE: ntsec Question

2002-12-16 Thread Vince Hoffman
I think your confusion here comes from thinking that Cygwin controls the user login. Windows handles the login process. To change which user is logged in you will need to either log off windows then log the new user on, or use ssh Running cygwin.bat does not do anything than start an interactive

Re: ntsec and remote copy

2002-12-14 Thread Pierre A. Humblet
On Thu, Dec 12, 2002 at 12:00:51PM -, Kris Thielemans wrote: > Remaining questions: > - is there another way to prevent specific users access to telnet or ftp ? > (or ssh when I get round to installing sshd) ? Edit /etc/passwd and set the shell field to /something/invalid/but/not/empty > - I

RE: ntsec and remote copy

2002-12-12 Thread Kris Thielemans
could read the file with an unrecognised owner, but test -r couldn't. (I recently reinstalled and upgraded the whole of cygwin, so I don't think it's because I have old versions lying around). Thanks for the help Kris > -Original Message- > From: Kris Thielemans [ma

Re: ntsec and remote copy

2002-12-10 Thread Pierre A. Humblet
On Tue, Dec 10, 2002 at 02:02:59PM -, Kris Thielemans wrote: > I have a problem with ntsec I think. > I copied files from a remote disk (a Windows NT server) using the explorer. > These files are then set to the following UID: > > ls -l test.txt > -rwx--1 65535None 1225 De

RE: ntsec and remote copy

2002-12-10 Thread Kris Thielemans
Oh yes, a related remark. On the file with the funny UID, some things work, some don't. For instance, I can vi it, but I cannot write it. This seems to say that some cygwin programs call this file readable, but others don't... Bearing in mind the premissions that it is said to, I would actually cl

Re: ntsec and NTFS inheritable permissions

2002-10-08 Thread Roman Belenov
Well, by groking I meant using them while deciding whether certain user has access to file. And it seems that they are just ignored. BTW Can you point me to this discussion in the list ? Searching list archive I found only references to inheritable permissions problem without description of the p

RE: ntsec and NTFS inheritable permissions

2002-10-08 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I suppose it depends on what you mean when you say "cygwin doesn't grok inheritable permissions". This email list has discussed in the past that Cygwin's permissions are "affected" by the setting of inheritable permissions in Windows. There is no corollary in POSIX permissions, which is the vie

Re: ntsec vs ntea

2002-09-21 Thread Nicholas Wourms
--- Matt Swift <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I have been using Cygwin with a value CYGWIN="ntsec ntea binmode > tty" > for a long time under Win2k and WinXP with NTFS hard drives. On > rereading the documentation, it seems to me that the "ntea" and > "ntsec" values select different solutions t

RE: ntsec not enabled from cygwin.bat

2002-05-17 Thread Robert Collins
Set it from the System control panel. Rob > -Original Message- > From: Andrew Malcolmson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Saturday, May 18, 2002 10:34 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: ntsec not enabled from cygwin.bat > > > Apparently unlike anyone else on this list, I have the

Re: ntsec, ssh and cygwin

2002-03-28 Thread Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc)
At 09:42 AM 3/28/2002, Daniel Holtkamp wrote: >domain-user and not the local computer user. I reinstalled Cygwin >several times and always ran into the same problem. (Domain user is >not included in /etc/passwd ... only the local ones). Add the domain user(s) to the /etc/passwd file.

Re: ntsec+inetd+cvspserver (was CVS PServer problem)

2002-01-30 Thread Phil Dempster
> Did you check your /etc/group? Is there a group Guests and > Guest has that group as primary group in /etc/passwd? > > Corinna There is a group Guests and a user Guest - however, I'm not sure how to tell the primary (or the secondary) group of a user. I think the group entries may be wrong -

Re: ntsec+inetd+cvspserver (was CVS PServer problem)

2002-01-30 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Wed, Jan 30, 2002 at 12:59:40PM -, Phil Dempster wrote: > > Heck, why did I wrote /usr/doc/inetutils-1.3.2.README and what are > > the announcements good for? Since version 1.3.2-15 we have the > > following (quoted): > [snip] > > Apologies and thanks... > > So: Since CVS is evidently ru

Re: ntsec+inetd+cvspserver (was CVS PServer problem)

2002-01-30 Thread Phil Dempster
> Heck, why did I wrote /usr/doc/inetutils-1.3.2.README and what are > the announcements good for? Since version 1.3.2-15 we have the > following (quoted): [snip] Apologies and thanks... So: Since CVS is evidently running as Guest (there are no entries in the event log to contradict this) and t

Re: ntsec+inetd+cvspserver (was CVS PServer problem)

2002-01-30 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Wed, Jan 30, 2002 at 10:46:48AM -, Phil Dempster wrote: > Hi folks, > > I've managed to get CVS pserver running on Win2K (ntsec) and am in the > process of preparing some documentation for it. I'm trying to grasp just > how the user ID switching works when CVS is spawned from inetd. > >